Car-replacer.



No. 633,684. Patented Oct. I, mm. a. n. 0000.

CAR REPLACEB.

gApplica-tion filed July 28, 1901.,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE R. DODD, OF ANDERSON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- THIRD TO THOMAS GLENN, OF ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CAR-REPLACER.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 683,684, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed July 23, 1901. Serial No. 69,440. (No model.)

To all whom iv may concern: pivoted to the supporting-clamp, is adapted Be it known that I, GEORGE R. DODD, a to be arranged at an angle to the rail 9 for citizen of the United States, residing at Anguiding the wheel of a car orlocomotive back derson, in the county of Anderson and State upon the rail when the said wheel has left 5 of South Carolina, have invented a new and the track. The clamp and the pivoted guideuseful Oar-Replacer, of which the following bar may be constructed of any suitable metal,

is a specification. and the lower end of the guide-bar is adapted The invention relates to improvements in to be arranged upon a supporting-plate 10, car-replacers. as shown in full lines in Fig.. 2 of the draw- IO The object of the present invention is to ings, or upon the adjacent cross-tie, as illusimprove the construction of car-replacers and trated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The pivoted to provide a simple and comparatively ineX- guide-bar is provided at the lower face of its pensive device of great strength and duralower end with a pair of depending spurs or bility adapted to be readily applied to a rail projections 11, adapted to embed themselves 15 for replacing the wheels of a car or locomoin the cross-tie to prevent the guide-bar from tive and capable of being rigidly held at the slipping. When the lower or outer end of desired adjustment. the pivoted guide-bar is located beyond the The invention consists in the construction adjacent cross-tie, it is supported by the recand novel combination and arrangement of tangular plate 10, which forms a broad base 20 parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated and which prevents the car-replacer from in the accompanying drawings, and pointed sinking into the ground. The supportingout in the claims hereto appended. plate 10 is provided at its center with a clip In the drawings, Figure l is a side eleva- 13, having L-shaped flanges It for engaging tion of a car-replacer constructed in accordgrooves 15 of the sides of the lower or outer 25 ance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan end of the guide-bar. The grooves extend view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail inward from the end of the guide-bar, and views of the clamp. Fig. 5 is a detail view the flanges 14; are readily engaged with the of the supporting-plate. Fig. 6 is a detail same, whereby the guide-bar is securely insectional view illustrating the manner of setel-looked with the supportingplate. The 3o curing the clamp to a rail. Fig. 7 is a detail clip-plate, which may be mounted on the supview of the outer end of the main pivoted porting-plate in any suitable manner, is probar. Fig. 8 is a detail view of the supplevided with sockets or depressions 16 to remental short pivoted bar. ceive the spurs, whereby the latter are pre- Like numerals of reference designate correvented from being injured. The grooves are 35 spending parts in all the figures of the drawof'snfiicient width to permit the spurs or proings. jections to be readily engaged with and disldesignates aclamp designed to be arranged engaged from the clip. Instead of providing at one side of arail and to be supported upon a separate clip-plate the flanges 14: may be a cross-tie 2, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 constructed in any other suitable manner. 40 and 2 of the accompanying drawings, and In order to prevent the pivoted guide-bar provided with depending ears 3, receiving the from slipping outward under the lateral presshanks of hook-bolts 4, which extend beneath sure incident to replacing a wheel upon the the rail and engage the bottom flange thererail when the supporting-plate is used, the of at the opposite side of the same. The latter is connected with the rail by a chain 5 45 hook-bolts are provided at their outer ends 17, secured at one end to the supportingwith nuts 5, and the clamp is provided at its plate and provided at its other end with center with a perforation 6 for the reception a hook 18 for engaging the bottom flange of of a vertical pivot 7 for connecting an inthe rail. The chain extendsbeneath the rail, olined guide-bar 8 to the clamp, which forms and the supporting-plate is provided with a 5b a support for the upper end of the guide-bar. perforation or opening 19, through which The inclined guide-bar, which is detachably passes the chain. The chain extends upward through the opening 19 from the bottom of the supporting-plate, whichis designed to be grooved or hollowed out at its lower face adjacent to the opening 19 to receive the chain 17. The chain maybe secured to the supporting-plate by a pin orkey 21, and it may be shortened by engaging the pin or key with any one of the intermediate links of the chain; but any other suitable means may be employed-for attaching the chain to the supporting plate and for varying its length. The lower end of the pivoted guide-bar is beveled or rounded, and the Wheel of a car or locomotive is adapted to ride up the said guide-bar, and it will be directed by the same to the rail. The clamp is also adapted to receive a short guide-bar 22, adapted to beernployed when the derailed wheel is close to the rail. This short guide-bar, which is secured to the supporting-clamp by the pivots 7, is of a length to extend to the next cross-tie, and it is provided at its lower end with spurs or projections for engagingthe same to prevent it from slipping laterally. The pivot may be of any desired construction, and it may consist of a bolt or any other'suitable device.

It will be seen that the car-replacer is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it possesses great strength and durability, and that it is adapted to be arranged at diderent angles to a rail to suit the position of a derailed wheel. It will also be apparent that the pivoted guide-bar may be either supported upon a cross-tie or upon the ground at a point beyond the cross-tie and that when supported in the latter position it is prevented from sinking into the ground.

What I claim is- 1. A carreplacer comprising a pivoted guide-bar having an inclined upper face and adapted to be arranged at different angles to a rail, a clamp supporting the inner end of the guide bar and arranged to engage the rail, a supporting-plate designed to be located beyond the cross-ties and adapted to be placed at different distances from the rail and receiving the outer end of the guide-bar, and an adjustable connection extending from the supporting-plate to the rail and adapted to be lengthened and shortened, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A car-replacer comprising a pivoted guide-bar, adapted to have its outer end supported upon one of the cross-ties or to be arranged beyond the same, a supporting-plate designed to be arranged beyond the cross-ties to support the outer end of the guide-bar, and detachably interlocked with the same to enable it to be removed when the guide-bar is supportedby a cross-tie, and means for adjustably connecting the supporting-plate with a rail, substantially as described 3. A car-replacer comprising a pivoted guide-bar designed to be arranged at an angle to a rail and provided at its outer end with opposite grooves, and a supporting-plate provided with flanges engaging-the said grooves, substantially as described.

4. A carreplacer comprising a pivoted guide-bar provided at its outerend with spurs and having grooves at its sides, a supportingplate having a clip provided with flanges for engaging the grooves and having sockets to receive the spurs, and a chain for connecting the supportingplate with a rail, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE R. DODD.

lVitnesses:

J. T. 0. Jones, J. F. CLARDY. 

